Take-up device for guy-wires.



- E. C. GILLESPIE; TAKE-UP DEVIOE FOR GUY WIRES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 16, 1910. F

Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

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EARL G. GILLESPIE, 0F WOODHAVEN, NEW YORK.

TAKE-U1? DEVICE FOR GUY-WIRES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

Application filed May 16, 1910. Serial No. 561,619.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, EARL G. Ginnnsrm, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Woodhaven, Long Island, in the county of Queens andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTake-Up Devices for Guy- Wires, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to means for regulating the tension of guy ropes,cables and the like, such as are used in connection with flyingmachines, tents, ships, and the like, and the principal object of thesame is to provide simple means which may be readily manually adjustedand which will form a firm base connection for the ropes or cables.

In carrying out the objects of the invention generally stated above, itwill be understood, of course,that the essential features thereof arenecessarily susceptible of changes in details and structuralarrangements, certain practical embodiments of which are shown in theaccompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a fragmentary view in sideelevation, partly in section, showing the practical application of oneform of the invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical sectional viewshowing another form of the invention. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectionalview taken on the line 3-3, Fig. 2, the standard and adjusting boltsbeing omitted. Fig. 4 is a View in front elevation of a furthervariation of the invention. Fig. 5 is a view in side elevation of theform of the invention shown in Fig. 4.

Referring to said accompanying drawings by numerals, and particularly toFig. 1 thereof, 1 designates a base support which may be the platform ofan aeroplane and which is provided with vertical openings 2. A flatplate 3 is seated on said base 1 and is provided with openings 4 adaptedto be placed in alinement with base openings 2 to permit the threadedbolts 5 to be passed through said alined openings. Nuts 6 are carried bythe lower portion of bolts 5 for fastening the same to the lower surfaceof base 1 and similar nuts 7 are carried by the upper portion of thebolts to fasten the bolts to the upper surface of plate 3. Said boltsproject well above plate 3 and the upper end of each is provided with ahook 8. As

of a supporting standard 10.

will be obvious, said bolts may be adjusted by manipulating nuts 6 and7.

Plate 3 is provided with a central upstanding tubular socket 9 for thereception Said standard is provided with a transverse opening 11 throughwhich the shank 12 of a guiding eye 13 projects. Said shank projectsthrough and beyond opening 11 and is threaded for engagement with athreaded opening 14 formed in the flat base 15 of a guiding eye 16.Guiding eye 13 is also provided with a flat base 17 and as will beobvious, the shank 12 when in threaded engagement with the opening 14 ofeye 16 will detachably clamp said eyes 13 and 16 to opposite portions ofstandard 10 and retain the same in a laterally projecting positionrelative to standard 10 so that the guy wires or cables 18 may be passedtherethrough and have their ends fastened to the hooks 8 of bolts 5.

It will be seen from the foregoing that the bolts 5 and nuts 6 and 7 inaddition to providing simple means for regulating the tension of theguys 18, also provide means for detachably locking plate 3 to base 1.

In Fig. 2 the base 1 is provided with an oblique opening 19 and thesocket 20 of plate 21 is provided with a recess 22 the bottom 23 ofwhich is on an incline. The top of socket 20 is provided with an opening24 and the bottom with an opening 25, said openings 24-25 alining withthe opening 19 of base 1. The supporting standard 26 has a notched base27 that fits over the top of recess 22 and has a clearance slot 28formed through it that is in oblique alinement with openingsl9, 24 and25. An adjusting bolt 29' is passed through alined openings and slot 19,24, 25 and 28 and by means of the nut 30 that bears upon the inclinedbottom 23 of recess 22 and a nut 31 and washer 32 which bear upon thebottom of plate 1, the bolt 29 may be adjustably locked in said openingsand slot 19, 24, 25 and 28, and also detachably clamp plate 21 tobase 1. Said standard 26 has a laterally projecting eye 33 detachablyfastened thereto by means of the threaded shank 34, said eye serving asa guide for the guy 35 which is engaged by the hook 36 of bolt 29.

In Figs. 4 and 5 the base 1 has a plate 37 bolted or otherwise fastenedthereto, the said plate provided with a central tubular socket 37standing and preferably tapering flange 38. The upper portion of flange38 is provided with a laterally projecting" lug 39 through which athreaded adjusting bolt 40 projects,

said bolt having a hook 4:1 at'its lower end.

A nut 42 is carried by Said. bolt and bears upon the upper surface oflug 39. A guiding eye 43 projects laterally from the base of socket 37in vertical alinement with lug 39, and guides the guy to'hook 41. Inthis form of the invention it will be seen that: the guyadjusting boltdoes not lock plate 37 to base 1, and also that by mountin the bolt in apendent position, the loop of a guy may be engaged, thus providing meansfor adjusting a single length of guy cable which is which isfequippedwith an upand cable guidin means detachably fas tened to said stan ard.

2. A device of the character described comprising a plate provided witha standard socket, cable adjusting bolts for detachably fastenin saidplate to a support, said bolts provided with a cable-engaging hook atone end, a standard for said socket, and cable guiding eyes detachablyconnected to said standard.

3. A device of the character described comprising a base provided with asocket, said socket provided with a side recess, said recess having aninclined bottom, obliquely arranged cable engaging means extendinthrough said recess, a nut seated on said inclinedbottom and adapted toadjust the cable engaging means, a standard seated in said socket, andcable-guiding means carried by said standard.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

EARL C. GILLESPIE.

Witnesses:

H. C. ToRREY, B. J. KELLY.

